Garment-fastener



- No. 749,321. PA'IENTED JAN. 12, 1904.

' N. PERKINS, JR.

GARMENT FASTENER.

APPLICATION FILED JULY 12, 1902.

N0 MODEL.

s5 a I legs, respectively, by aloop 4 or continuous I UNITED STATESPatented January 12, 1904.

PATE T OFFICE.

NATHAN WAITE PERIHNS, JR, OF ST. LOUIS, MISSOURI.

GARMENT-FASTENER- SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent NO.749,321, dated January 12, 1904;.

Application filed July 12, 1902.

To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, NATHAN WAITE PERKINS, J r., a citizen of the UnitedStates, and a resident of the city of St. Louis and, State of Missouri,have invented a new and useful Improvement in Garment-Fasteners, ofwhich the following is a specification.

My invention relates to garment-fasteners, and has for its principalobject to produce a simple, cheap, and efiicient fastener.

My invention consists of a continuous wire comprising twoloop-sectionsand an intermea my fastener.

Fig. III is a top view of the two members in.

diate spring-hook, as hereinafter described and claimed.

In the accompanying drawings, which form part of this specification, andwherein like symbols refer to like parts wherever they occur, Figure Iis a top view of one member of Fig. II is an end view thereof.

i of the V-shaped hook thus formed the wire is bent back to form twolegs 2, whose ends are bent around to form eyes 3. The hook portion 1 ofthe wire is connected to each of the curve extending outwardly at anangle to the plane of the hook portion and of the legs, so that the hookportion is offset from the plane of the legs and the tip of the hook iscloser to the plane of the legs. By this arrangement the loops 4 of onemember may readily interlock with the loops of the other member, and

the hooks are arranged to prevent their acci dental disengagement. Forthis purpose the tips of the hooks when the members are interlockedoverhang or project beyond each other, a so that force is necessary inorder to spring Serial No. 115,251. (No model.)

said hooks past each other to disengage them. In order that the devicemay be easy to operate, the tips of the hooks should be so arranged thatwhen the members are being engaged the respective hooks shall abutagainst each other at the inner inclined surfaces of their tips, wherebysaid surfaces act as inclined planes for springing the hooks past eachother.

Obviously my device admits of considerable modification, and I do notwish to be restricted to the construction herein described. Forinstance, the legs and eyes may be omitted and the loops may be fastenedto a base 5, as shown in Figs. VI and VII, in which case suitablestitching-holes 6 are formed in the base. As shown in Figs. V and VII,the members may be provided with an ornamental top 10.

What I claim is 1. A member for a garment-fastener comprising a wirewhose middle portion is bent to form an open spring-hook at the ends ofwhose legs the wire is bent outwardly and at an angle to the plane ofthe hook portion and backwardly to form legs, said hook being inclinedtoward the plane of said last-mentioned legs, substantially asdescribed.

2. A garment-fastener comprising two interlocking members, each memberconsisting of a wire whose middle portion is bent to form an openspring-hook at the ends ofwhose legs the wire is bent outwardly and atan angle to the plane of the hook portion and backwardly to form legs,said hook being inclined toward the plane of said last-mentioned legs,substantially as described.

3. A garment-fastener comprising two interlocking members, each memberconsisting of a wire whose middle portion is bent to form an openspring-hook at the ends of whose legs the wire is bent outwardly and atan angle to the planeof the hook portion and back to form legs, and eyestherefor, said hook being in- 9 clined toward the plane of saidlast-mentioned legs, substantially as described.

NATHAN WAITE PERKINS, J R. Witnesses:

T. PERCY CARR,

ZOLA TUCKER.

